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• Adrienne de Macar, Liège, Belgique († 1902)
• Anna (1) Meurs, Schagen († 1869)
• Adelina de Arruda, São Roque, São Paulo, Brasil
• Adriana Houdijker, Sluipwijk († 1869)
• Adrienne Octavie Augusta de MACAR, Liège († 1902)
• van Leeuwen († 1869)
• Adrianus Jacobus Janssen, Nijmegen, Nederland († 1869)
• Abraham LOKKER, Stellendam († 1934)
• Verborgt, Morkhoven (Broekhoven)
• (Stillborn) SINNEMA, Leeuwarderadeel Friesland Netherlands († 1869)

• Antje Eelsing (0), Oude-Pekela, Groningen, Nederland
• Aletta Johanna Antonia Wilhelmina Bowier (35), ‘s-Hertogenbosch,Gemeente 'S-Hertogenbosch,North Brabant,Netherlands
• Aaltje (Leenderts) Moed (30), Haskerland, Friesland, Nederland
• Alida Stoop (49), Weesperkarspel
• Anna Virginia SMETS (36), Willebroek,2830,Anvers,Flandre,BELGIQUE
• Arnoldus SEEGERS (56), Elst,9660,Flandre Orientale,Flandre,BELGIQUE
• Aaltje Geerts (43), Assen
• Adriana Johanna Ferreira (88)
• Antonie Koudijs (22), De Bilt
• van Leeuwen (0)

• 1856 » Thomas Anstey Guthrie, English journalist and author († 1934)
• 1857 » Cécile Chaminade, French pianist and composer († 1944)
• 1866 » Matthew Henson, American explorer († 1955)
• 1874 » Albert Stanley, 1st Baron Ashfield, English businessman and politician, President of the Board of Trade († 1948)
• 1875 » Arthur Bernardes, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 12th President of Brazil († 1955)
• 1876 » Varghese Payyappilly Palakkappilly, Indian-Syrian priest, founded the Sisters of the Destitute († 1929)
• 1879 » Bob Smith, American physician and surgeon, co-founded Alcoholics Anonymous († 1950)
• 1879 » Emiliano Zapata, Mexican general and politician († 1919)
• 1880 » Earle Page, Australian lawyer, academic, and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Australia († 1961)
• 1881 » Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, German field marshal († 1954)

• 1828 » Carl Peter Thunberg, Swedish botanist and psychologist (b. 1743)
• 1858 » Marie-Claire Heureuse Félicité Bonheur, Haitian Empress (b. 1758)
• 1863 » Angus MacAskill, Scottish-Canadian giant (b. 1825)
• 1879 » Immanuel Hermann Fichte, German philosopher and academic (b. 1797)
• 1887 » Alexander William Doniphan, American colonel, lawyer, and politician (b. 1808)
• 1897 » Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss historian and academic (b. 1818)
• 1898 » Eugène Boudin, French painter (b. 1824)
• 1902 » James Tissot, French painter and illustrator (b. 1836)
• 1902 » John Henry Twachtman, American painter and academic (b. 1853)
• 1909 » Mary MacKillop, Australian nun and saint, co-founded the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart (b. 1842)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Pieter
6. Willem
7. Gerrit
8. Jacob
9. Petrus
10. Jacobus
11. Adrianus
12. Arie
13. Dirk
14. Hendrikus
15. Albert
16. Leendert

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Adriana
7. Catharina
8. Wilhelmina
9. Hendrika
10. Aaltje
11. Grietje
12. Neeltje
13. Trijntje
14. Elizabeth
15. Jacoba
16. Jantje

• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From June 4, 1868 till January 4, 1871 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Bosse - Fock with the prime ministers Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal) and Mr. C. Fock (liberaal).
• The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
• January 27 » Boshin War: Tokugawa rebels establish the Ezo Republic in Hokkaidō.
• April 17 » Morelos is admitted as the 27th state of Mexico.
• July 10 » Gävle, Sweden, is largely destroyed in a fire; 80% of its 10,000 residents are left homeless.
• August 16 » Battle of Acosta Ñu: A Paraguayan battalion made up of children is massacred by the Brazilian Army during the Paraguayan War.
• October 5 » The Hennepin Island tunnel collapses during construction, nearly destroying St. Anthony Falls.
• November 11 » The Victorian Aboriginal Protection Act is enacted in Australia, giving the government control of indigenous people's wages, their terms of employment, where they could live, and of their children, effectively leading to the Stolen Generations.

The temperature on August 8, 1869 was about 15.2 °C. There was 14 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 100%.